President Trump has signed a new executive order that aims to apply “Buy American” preferences for infrastructure projects to more types of materials and to projects involving a broader range of types of federal financial aid than an earlier directive did.
But it wasn’t immediately clear how the new executive order, which Trump signed on Jan. 31, will apply to the largest federally funded infrastructure program, federal-aid highways. Such highway work is covered by a different preference program called Buy America, which was established by federal statute. The Federal Highway Administration says that it is looking into the issue.
